In 1644, after Li Zicheng captured Beijing, the Southern Ming Dynasty established by Zhu Yousong named Zheng Zhilong as Amber and transferred him to lead the army to defend Nanjing. His son, Zheng Chenggong, 21, went with the army to Nanjing. However, after Zheng Zhilong returned to Anping Town, he knew that the general situation had gone, and in order to protect his position and property, he secretly contacted the Manchu minister Bo Luo and actively prepared for surrender. After Zheng Chenggong knew that his father was going to surrender to foreign enemies, he persuaded him many times, hoping that his father would change his mind and not do things that the people scolded. Zheng Zhilong did not listen to his son's advice and finally handed over a surrender to the Manchu Dynasty. Zheng Chenggong wrote his last letter to his father, condemning his father's crime of defecting to the enemy, saying that as a Ming courtier, he would never surrender**, and the relationship between father and son was severed.
After that, Zheng Chenggong recruited men and men to be brave, raised the banner of resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, and used Xiamen, Kinmen, Gulangyu and Nanao Island at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong as bases to expand military exercises, constantly defeat the Qing army's attacks, and recover the treasure island of Taiwan. Become an outstanding national hero and patriotic fighter in the history of our country. Seeing that Zheng Chenggong's attempt to lure him to surrender was completely bankrupt, Qing ** added a charge of "connecting the sea" to Zheng Zhilong, and killed him and all 11 family members who surrendered to Beijing with him.
This song describes the scene when Zheng Chenggong went home to persuade his father to no avail, and finally ran away in anger.